It seems like an odd question at first. Of course he didn't. No one invented the Solar System-unless you're going to suggest God in some fundamental sense. And for decades after Copernicus, most ...

This illustration of the large GRB ring, and the inferred underlying large-scale structure, shows what might be responsible for the pattern we've observed. However, this may not be a true structure, ...

Archaeologists in northern Poland have uncovered a finely crafted, 500‑year‑old navigational instrument that may once have ...

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, ...